Dr Selen Turkay

Faculty of Science,
School of Computer Science
Biography
Dr Selen Turkay has a PhD in Instructional Technology and Media from Columbia University Teachers College, New York, NY.
Prior to joining QUT in 2017, she worked as a Research Fellow at Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (2013-2015); and as a Research Scientist at Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (2015-2017) at Harvard University.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer in Computer Human Interaction
Faculty of Science,
School of Computer Science
Discipline
Information Systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD in Education in Instructional Technology & Media (Teachers College Columbia University)
Teaching
- IGB321: Immersive Level Design (2017, SEM2)
- IGB300: Capstone Unit (2018-2020, SEM1)
- IFN691: Gamification and Persuasive Computing (2019, SEM2)
In 2021, I teach the following units:
- IGB388: Design and Development of Immersive Environments (SEM 1)
- IGB200: Game Studio 2 - Applied Game Development (SEM 2)
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Selen, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Research projects
- Title
- Enabling Situated Immersive Science Collaboration with Remote Sensing Data
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP210103889
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- Augmented Sociality: Enabling a Socialised Experience of Augmented Reality
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP200102478
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Problematic Videogame Play in Young People
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Daniel Johnson, Adjunct Professor Leanne Hides - Designing Virtual Reality Environments for Burns Rehabilitation
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Daniel Johnson, Associate Professor Ross Brown - The role of immersive reality technologies to support science collaboration
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Daniel Johnson, Associate Professor Ross Brown - The Role of Psychological Needs and Passion in the Wellbeing of Recreational and Esports Players
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Daniel Johnson - Videogame Rewards and Prosocial Behaviour
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Daniel Johnson, Dr Stephanie Tobin - Vague Gesture Control
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Ross Brown, Dr Frederic Maire - Convenient Ground Truth: Virtual Reality Improvements to Veridical Cognition when Conducting and Communicating Geological Research
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Daniel Johnson, Associate Professor Ross Brown - Understanding our Natural World via Situated Learning in Immersive Geology Field Trips
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Ross Brown, Professor Daniel Johnson